How to Install Applications on Nook

Since the nook has been rooted by NookDevs a lot of people got interested on usability of nook with respect to installing android applications. And it’s now possible if you have enough courage to root your nook.

It’s not an easy job since you have to take apart the nook first, and you must have knowledge how to execute commands on a linux machine. You’ll liable for any damage to nook in the process of rooting.

The steps you need to follow:

1. Root the nook if not done yet. The instructions are here.
2. After the rooting complete, if you find wifi connection drops, do the following:  Go to settings. Turn wifi off, turn wifi on. Go to the nook store to check it’s working now.
3. Before installing/running the apps you will need to connect to your nook through adb. This is because there is no launcher screen yet on nook. What does it means is that you first open a terminal on your computer while nook is connected, then cd to the android folder, then cd tools , then ./adb connect IP_OF_NOOK:5555 and lastly, ./adb shell
4. Now you need to VNC server to communicate with nook. Follow the steps here.
5. Once done, you can follow the instructions here to install three application as of now: internet browser, pandora radio, and busybox applications.
6. If wifi drops after opening an application, do the following:  adb shell mv /system/app/RadioPmSvc.apk /data/local

Hopefully nookdevs team will come up some easy way to install the applications, even the rooting process without taking apart the nook physically. If this can happen with iPhone, why it can’t happen with nook.

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